Fazielah Allie, 50, grew up in Cape Town in the 1980s and is now majority shareholder and CEO of K9 pet foods, a manufacturer of premium foods for cats and dogs supplying major retail chains. She shares her inspiring story of climbing up a corporate ladder with only her Gr12, high school certificate, to becoming CEO of a company employing 120 people and a turnover of R120million to leaving that comfy job to buy a small business making an annual turnover of R2,8million employing 9 people in 2015.Her story is one that shows that being true to yourself is the best formula for happiness driven success.  K9 Pet Foods is now a medium enterprise employing 52 people, hitting just over R20milllion annual turnover in the year ending June 2019 and on track to hitting over R30million turnover year ending June 2020.